America

• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - A survey shows that the Church is the institution which is most trusted by Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is the institution that enjoys credibility among Panamanians, while the opposite is the National Assembly of Deputies, according to results of a survey published by the firm U ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mother's Day against Domestic Violence Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Mother's Day, which the population of the Dominican Republic celebrates on the last Sunday in May is an opportunity to relieve the longstanding problem of domestic violence: S ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The Day of Holy Childhood Association for the poor children in the world Lima (Agenzia Fides) - To arouse in children a universal missionary awareness, encouraging them to share their faith, love, hope and material goods with the poor and abandoned children in the world: this is the aim of th ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA -Bishops to the government: "Stop corruption, we need to fight poverty" Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina asks the government increased efforts to stop corruption and fight poverty. On the occasion of Argentina's national day of independence, on May 25, during the celebrati ...
• 25 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "A transparent Church, formed by men acting under the protection of Jesus" Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - A year after his appointment as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali will present to his community the figures that the universal Church, national and ...
• 24 May 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants and the Church's pastoral commitment: meeting of Bishops on the situation in Central America Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The delegates of the Episcopal Conferences of the United States, Mexico and the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, will meet next week in the Dominican Republic to analyze the im ...
• 24 May 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fighting human trafficking, which has become "an industry" in the hands of organized crime Gualeguaychú (Agenzia Fides) - There were about sixty participants at the XXVII Meeting of the "Diocese of Frontier, which this year had the theme of human trafficking. From May 21 to 23, representatives of the dioceses ...
• 16 May 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Overcome poverty and corruption”: the voice of the Church on the anniversary of independence Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – The celebration of the Te Deum for 201 years of independence in Paraguay was marked by an unique note: the people were not allowed to go into the Cathedral or the Square in front, though thi ...
• 16 May 2012
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Presidential elections: vigil of prayer and reflection prescribed by the Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic has exhorted all citizens to vote according to conscience at the Presidential elections next Sunday, 20 May. The Bishops also asked t ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The celebrations for the 500 years of the foundation of the first American diocese Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Primate Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, presided on Sunday, May 13 the celebration for the 42nd Eucharistic Meeting of Panama, as the initial par ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Against human trafficking, a scourge that affects more than 6 000 people only in Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Every year about 800 000 people around the world are victims of human trafficking, a growing business that is based on slavery, deceit or violence, said Hiroshima Villalba, Undersecretary to the d ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children should not continue to die or remain disabled because of hunger Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – It is unacceptable that children die or remain disabled because of hunger. This is what emerges in a document released by the Archdiocese of Mexico, which is based in Mexico City, which pr ...
• 14 May 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - " Priority to the welfare of society must be given": the Church's appeal to political parties San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, insisted, in his regular press conference on Sunday, on the importance that it is necessary to have a national program dedicate ...
• 14 May 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Solar panels bring the internet in schools without electricity Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Secretary General of the Organization of Iberoamerican States (OEI), thanks to a pilot program involving the installation of solar panels, 100 colleges in rural areas and diffi ...
• 12 May 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Appeal of the Church for the journalist kidnapped: 28 journalists murdered since 2003 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, and of the Association dei Media of the Central American country, have strongly condemned the kidnapping of ...